The Rivers State Government on Tuesday expressed shock that former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, expended N82 million to host the Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, to a three-hour dinner at a period he refused to pay salaries.
Addressing journalists yesterday at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state Commissioner for Information and Communication, Dr. Austin-Tam George, said the figures were contained in the handover note prepared by the former Permanent Secretary of the state Ministry of Information and Communication under the Amaechi administration.
He said: “A government did not pay salaries, closed the courts but the administration had the temerity to expend N82million to fund a dinner for Soyinka.
“These are facts on ground. The Amaechi administration expended the money under the heading of borrowed funds.
“There is a massive propaganda machine out there misinforming the people about the policy direction of Governor Wike’s administration. They have to respect the will of the people. Instead, they go about spreading falsehood against the people of the state,” the information commissioner said.
He charged journalists to emphasise the developmental achievements of Governor Nyesom Wike with facts because the state was currently dealing with a “disastrous legacy of abandoned projects” by the Amaechi administration.
George, who noted that the Wike administration was facing a combination of “85 per cent information war” and “ political fundamentalism” also said the APC was seeking to establish a “ political caliphate” in Rivers State, by installing Dakuku Peterside who is a fake political candidate of the APC.
The commissioner also described those who said Wike’s government was serving only Ikwerre interests as talking “anthropological nonsense” because he is running an all- inclusive government of indigenes from the 23 local government areas of Rivers State.
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